Stocks Step Quietly Higher; Apple, Green Mountain Rising

Stocks jabbed to healthy early gains in quiet, pre-holiday trade Wednesday. The Nasdaq scaled up 0.4%, the S&P 500 0.3% and the Dow Jones industrial average 0.2%. Volume was weak in the stock market today, down 21% on the Nasdaq and 2% on the NYSE. Chicago-region manufacturing eased less than expected in November, sending Kingsbury International's Chicago PMI to 63. That was down from 65.9 in ...

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